TOP 10 WAYS TO SUPPORT UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS

Engage with an Open Mind

When supporting undocumented students, it’s important to know that there won’t be a single answer or path for all students. Support requires ongoing investigation and collaboration with other service providers and community leaders. When you don’t know something, work WITH students to find out answers so that you can share them with other students and colleagues.

Create a Safe Space

Don’t ask undocumented students to self-identify

Make resources easily available for all students

Understand that trust takes time

Be mindful of your language; say “undocumented” rather than “illegal” and avoid terms like “alien” or “illegal immigration”

Do all you can to identify YOURSELF as an ally/supporter; use posters, bookmarks, and stickers to make your support visible

Encourage students to use E4FC’s free, anonymous, and online DREAMer Intake Service to get information about their eligibility for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other long-term immigration remedies. Visit e4fc.org

Educate students about how other marginalized groups have organized against their marginalization

Build faith — a sense of agency and a belief that things will change for the better

Create Spaces for Storytelling and Creative Expression

Encourage students to share their stories (when safe)

Share E4FC’s creative work website: www.thingsillneversay.org

Support undocumented artists: www.tiny.cc/buzzfeedundocuart

Encourage students to build their own meaning and identity that is different from the negative stigma and stereotypes about undocumented immigrants

About Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC)

Founded in 2006, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) empowers undocumented young people to achieve educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation. We envision an America where all young people can pursue and complete an education with confidence and without constraint. Our programming is designed by and for undocumented young people with support from committed allies.

Please join us in a survey taking party this Thursday October, 12th from 11:30am-1:00pm in McLaren 252! You’ll have the opportunity to win some awesome prizes for yourself and win $200 for your student organization!

Leroy Moore will be reading a selection from Black Disabled Art History101. He will be joined by India Harville, a disabled dancer from Oakland, who is featured in the book. India will be both performing and discussing art and performance as integral to disability justice.

Black Disabled Art History101: Disability representation in children’s literature typically fulfills common stereotypes of disability as deficit, something to overcome, or something to fear. Rarely is disability, as it intersects with other identity markers, positioned as a natural part of human variation or within frameworks of diversity and culture. We believe that this ground-breaking book is the first of its kind, focusing on disability identity, art, and culture; and, as such, creates the space for conversations that can move the dominant narrative of disability from overcoming to pride.

Join the USF community in welcoming Omar Garcia on Wednesday, September 27, 2017. Omar is one of the students from the school for rural teachers, “Raúl Isidro Burgos,” who was present at the events of September 26th, 2014 and survived the attack of the army and police. He has been one of the most visible spokespersons of the group of parents and students who in spite of the lack of advances in the case, or precisely because of this, continue to demand truth and justice. Please see attached flyer for more information.

Practically speaking, federal guidance on campus sexual-assault policy has returned to the pre-2011 era. But colleges’ policies won’t. At least not right away. Campus Title IX officers told The Chronicle on Friday that their colleges would remain committed to sexual-assault prevention and response, despite the federal government’s announcement that the approach to the gender-equity law that the Obama administration had championed was effectively over. Please click here for full article.